I thank you, AG for your love of Him and me:)
****We must know both the Scriptures and the power of God to avoid error:****
I beg to differ with you a little on this verse.
These men are testing Jesus, trying to make Him say something with which they can accuse Him. Their error is in trying to trap Jesus by quoting Scripture to Him. They do not know Him and so they sought to trip Him up.
I believe what Jesus meant here is that they know words of Scripture but not the spirit and therefore they do not know Him.
St. Jerome said, “To be ignorant of Scripture is to be ignorant of Christ.”
I don’t agree with that, many have know the love of Christ without ever knowing Scripture.
Who and how?
Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Some perhaps, but I'm not even sure of that. However, *many* is highly suspect.
Back to the enlightening of the Holy Spirit when reading Scripture......
Has it not ever happened to you that you were reading something in the Bible and all of a sudden you see a verse in a new light and sit back and say, *Wow! I never saw that before* (or Never saw it like that before)?
That is the enlightening of the Holy Spirit.
So, even if the Holy Spirit's enlightenment is only for a select few men to interpret for us what God said, who or what interprets their interpretation to us so that we understand what THEY said correctly. What they said needs correct interpretation as well, and after reading much of the CCC, even more so than Scripture.
The Bible is EASY to understand compared to the CCC.